Sep 18 2008
No Green Party Bid for Platt
COLUMBIA — A federal judge here ruled against Green Party candidate Eugene Platt’s request Thursday for court intervention to place him on the November ballot for House District 115.
Platt was sued by the Charleston County Democratic Party earlier this month for breaking South Carolina Code of Laws Title 7, Chapter 11, Paragraph 210. Platt ran in the primary as a Democrat and lost. By signing the candidacy pledge he effectively agreed that he would not petition to be on the general election ballot as another party’s candidate should he lose the primary.
The Democrats definitely wanted Platt off the ballot because as a Democrat in 2006 he almost beat incumbent Wallace Scarborough by coming up short a mere 40 votes. Clearly, his Green Party candidacy was viewed by the Democrats as a spoiler for this race this year.
